Founder & Practitioner
Meada Rulon
I'm a certified life coach and Reiki practitioner based in the Branson, MO area. I hold a degree in Business Administration with a minor in psychology, and over the years I've added to those foundations with certifications in trauma-informed coaching, somatic mind-body healing and sound therapies.
To be honest though, the credentials are the smaller part of my story.
There are people who teach from theory, and there are people who guide through life experiences. I am the second.
My life has not followed a straight path, quite the opposite actually. By twenty I had dropped out of school, had two children and a failed marriage. By twenty-one I had a decision to make. I made it.
I got my GED, went back to school, and I kept going back until I had a couple degrees, a Series 7 license, and eventually every certification I could find that brought me closer to understanding how people actually heal. Not because any of it was easy, but because I felt that I needed to prove something. First to my kids. Then slowly, to myself.
I have lived through abusive relationships, more than one failed marriage, unexpectedly lost my daughter at 19 years old, caregiving, a child with chronic illness and then my own body, starting in 2017, started breaking down. (umm, hello...The Body Keeps the Score) Which required a level of attention and surrender I never anticipated. Twenty -six surgeries later, I have a relationship with my own physical limitations that continues to teach me about resilience, rest, and what our minds and bodies crave in times of healing and restoration.
I am not sharing this to impress you with how much I've survived. I'm sharing it because when I sit across from you and say I understand, I mean it in the most literal sense possible.
Why The Whole Cafe
Through all of it, the grief, the surgeries, the years of just trying to hold everything together, I kept searching.
Western medicine saved my life more than once and I'm grateful for it. But I noticed that true healing and the moments of real restoration never happened in a hospital or a doctor's office. They happened in holistic approaches. In energy work and strengthening my faith and in finally learning to listen to my body instead of fighting it.
Reiki found me when I needed it most. Somatic healing gave me a framework for what my body had been trying to tell me for years. And somewhere along the way I realized I didn't just want to keep these experience to myself. I felt that these things I had been through were preparing me for a calling I did not seek out but that I was led to do anyway.
I built The Whole Cafe because I spent a long time wishing somewhere like it had existed when I needed it the most. Not a clinic. Not a program. Just a space where you could sit down, be completely honest about where you are, and have someone across from you who genuinely gets it.
The cafe theme wasn't an accident. I wanted it to feel like a conversation between friends. Cozy. Familiar. Unhurried.
We are spiritual beings living in physical
bodies that need tending
Ready When You Are
Whenever you're ready - I'm here. There's no rush and no pressure.